SS/114433 Stoker

1st Class Royal Navy

KIA 31st May 1916

Remembered Portsmouth Naval Memorial

William Herbert Timmons was born in America, in Pennsylvania. His mother Ella was American, from Stoneboro Mercer County Pennsylvania. His father Herbert may have met Ella in America and their first few children, including William, were born in Pennsylvania. His father Herbert travelled to America, to Shamokin in Pennsylvania, with his parents, William and Martha Timmons, his father William was a coal miner too and may have moved for work in the Northern Pennsylvanian coal region.

William later lived at Cragg Villas in Creswell and he worked as a coal miner.

Stoker Timmons was 27 years of age when he died while serving on the warship H.M.S Invincible, a ship that went down in the battle of Horn Reef. He was an Elmton Church choir boy and very popular. He was the son of Herbert and Ella Timmons of 171 Elmton Road, Creswell.

He had grey eyes and brown hair and two tattoos, one on his left arm of an anchor and the name Agatha who was possibly his sweetheart and another of a bird on his right arm. He was 5ft 4.